C of L 49: "That's how it is..most of the time."

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Robin
Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>> From: Paul Mackin
>>
>> But doesn't the satire seem particularly directed at the anarchist types?
>
> In what respect, Charlie?
>
> The dispossesed/loser/schlemiel/49.9%er's are affectionately noted in all
> the texts as the nominal 'good guys' of the game, whilst the farther up the
> food chain ya go, the eviler it gets. There's system hierarchy going on
> here, relative degrees of bad karma & good. But the anarchists don't get the
> thorough working over of the Brock Vonds, the Dr. Hilarius [es], the
> Bliceros. Beyond all those singularities there are the nameless forces of
> 'THEM', even further past that are some really scary natural laws. Everybody
> that passes through Pynchonia gets the standard satirical treatment—TRP
> really ain't all that interested in 'normal' folks anyway.
>

But he doesn't make the bad guy very evil.

P